Florence sketch

Image 9 of 15 from gallery of The Importance of Sketches as a Form of Representation. Colosseum / Rome. Image © Sebastián Bayona Jaramillo

The Florence Cathedral. Inked on location, then colored a week later, on June 2013.

Travel is not about where you go, but how you see the world.

The Duomo. Florence cathedral has the largest brick dome ever built. It’s so large that when they started building the commissioners did not know how it would be built, they had faith that someone would come up with a solution. That someone was a jeweller who kind of bullshitted a bit …Filippo Brunelleschi but he worked it out. Nice! #florence #florencecathedral #watercolour #watercolours #watercolor_sketch #illustration #archlovers

I am trying to keep the art of architectural drawing alive as computers are taking over our architectural offices! Very beautiful architectural images can be made on the computer but they are a completely different art form to the traditional intricate pencil and paper drawings. I work solely in pencil, and as you can imagine they take days to complete. People often ask me how I have the patience and I think that if you are interested in your subject matter then it is an absolute pleasure…

The Duomo. Florence cathedral has the largest brick dome ever built. It’s so large that when they started building the commissioners did not know how it would be built, they had faith that someone would come up with a solution. That someone was a jeweller who kind of bullshitted a bit …Filippo Brunelleschi but he worked it out. Nice! #florence #florencecathedral #watercolour #watercolours #watercolor_sketch #illustration #archlovers

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